Saturday 30th March/100 club draw

Pre-Dartmouth Jolly

A glorious day!

Six wonderful women played today - competing for as much fresh air as possible!

It was certainly beautiful out there...

And fair warning for all those going to Dartmouth... beware of this combination...

Lyn scored 18 points and Sue S scored 19 - the winner!!!! 

Well played!

Marion almost holed her long putt!

I mentioned yesterday about Di's gift for the men...   

(Di had us all in stitches when she told us she had given the men's section a present.

She's attached a pen-on-a-string for them on their notice board so they don't keep nicking ours! 

                                  Along with a label explaining!   Well done Di!)    

                                  I thought you'd like a picture...

Hanging from the men's board!

Good Job!

100 Club

Di also drew this months winners of the 100 club.

First was Antoinette; second was Marion; third was Hilary!

Lyn has the prizes to give out at Dartmouth.

Congratulations all!

League v St Enodoc and Thursday Morning

League v St  Enodoc

Thursday saw our Cape team set off at the crack of dawn to travel to Rock to play the first away match of the year.

Conditions were glorious and leaving early meant the traffic was avoided and there was time for coffee (and tea cake for some)!

Nearly all the team were giving shots to their opponents... I think I was the only one to be in the enviable position of receiving shots (though it didn't help!).  Giving shots on an away course is tough!

The team were Claire, Di,  Fi, Hilary, Jane, Sue D and  myself.

18th Green at St Enodoc

The course was in wonderful condition and there were ground-staff working all over the place! Absolutely lovely to see!

The Ladies of St Enodoc were very welcoming and everyone enjoyed their matches.

Putting was difficult, the greens were fast but ran true.

The result was a win to St Enodoc 5.5 to 1.5. Great credit to the three ladies who halved their matches. That's impressive!  

Well done all - we look forward to hosting them back at Cape.

Oh... and the changing rooms were other-worldly (even with a drying room!); the pro shop huge and well stocked and the food was excellent!

Thursday Morning 28th March

There was a lovely turnout for our sun-shiny Thursday morning.
What a glorious day!

 How cheering it is to see signs of Spring!

Well done to Bronwen for winning the B group!

Congratulations to Frieda for winning the A group with 19 points!
Jenny was second with 16
and Ros was third with 15 points - just pipping Lindsay on countback!

Di had us all in stitches when she told us she had given the men's section a present.
She's attached a pen-on-a-string for them on their notice board so they don't keep nicking ours!  Along with a label explaining!
Well done Di!

Aussie Spoons

"Aussie Spoons"... also known as
 "There was not a lot of pleasure in it!"

Blue skies but a vicious wind.

There was a lovely turnout for the Australian Spoons today but conditions were very difficult (despite the implication of the picture!) and everyone came in feeling exhausted!

"There was not a lot of pleasure in it" was a common refrain - it felt like really hard work. There was a very strong Northerly wind blowing...(I don't believe the met office who say it was only about 14mph!) in fact it almost seemed to be in our faces the whole time!

However, we were out and we all came back with rosy cheeks! Surely it did us good?Eleven pairs took part, twenty two wonderful Cape Ladies.

There was a hole in one to report... sadly not the hole Ros was after!

In fact... it took us our full 3 minutes search time to find it in the bank on the 14th... we overlooked it until Frieda spotted it tucked away.

The scores fully reflect how hard we found it... in third place was Sue D and Jane who scored 26 points.

Countback was needed to separate first and second... both with 28 points. Fiona and Ann came out on top just pipping Frieda and myself.

Well done everyone today - it was so tough out there.

The winning pair can go forward to the regional final competition which is being held at Launceston, however they take the best scores in the county and 28 may not be good enough to get in.

Aussie spoons format allows golfers to play more than one round (even with other partners) should we choose to... so if anyone would like to try bettering the 28 of today then you can have a go; there is nothing to stop Fi and Ann getting out there again and improving their score too. 
For anyone playing again, please sign in the book, the cost is £2 per person and the money should go in the box.

Our second league match takes place this week - on Wednesday at St Enodoc - then on Sunday we're off to Dartmouth for our away weekend, beginning with a roll up on Saturday at Cape for those who would like to play.

League match v West Cornwall

League match

Today saw us play our first league match - it was at home to West Cornwall. 

The weather was not the most pleasant with a bit of a breeze and frequent light showers, but not too cold and a definite improvement from yesterday! It was good to see Fran (and Brian) who cheered us off on the first!

Last year we lost this match but there was a different result today with Cape ladies running out winners 6 - 1. 

Congratulations!

The Cape team was Frieda, Jane, Lyn, Fi, Sue D, Ruth and our team Captain Hils.

Well played everyone, and special congratulations to Frieda on playing her first league match ever!

Thanks to Hils for organising our matches this year; thanks to Mark for the condition of the course and for making sure all the bunkers had been raked, and thanks to Ashley and George for a very enjoyable meal.

Weather!

Weather!

The 'inclement' weather of the last week put paid to golf for us at Cape. Thursday and Saturday were both non starters - lets just hope that all this means we're due a more settled summer - we can always hope!

There was a lovely turnout for the Trevelyan Trophy Scramble on Sunday - 41 players  of which 12 were ladies. 

Many of us had thought we'd have good weather on Sunday... waking to heavy rain and strong winds I for one wondered if I was dreaming? 

But no, heavy rain showers and wind were waiting for us... heart sinking we trudged to our starting points in the rain... but thankfully, the showers disappeared and then skirted around us and eventually we had beautiful sunshine!

Play was challenging because of the wind so scoring was not easy. One of the teams was missing a player (who sadly hadn't turned up) which made it difficult for them, but it was great to be out on the course.

The winning team came in with a score of 59.5 which is impressive in that wind!

The Trevelyan Trophy Winners

Well played to Frieda, Andy and Brian!

In second place with 61.7 were Jenny, Norman D and Terry, and in third with 63.5 were Claire, German and Geoff P.

Liz, Steve P and Jeff T were 4th with 63.7

Well done to all who played - it was great to see such a good turnout! 

ps Fiona's team won 48 balls... they were the only ones with a two (on the 13th)!!

Par

With several people on holiday in different climes and others drying out after the friendly match on Friday at Mullion, just six ladies turned up to play in today's competition.

Conditions were surprisingly pleasant with less wind and sunshine for much of the round. Nevertheless countback was needed as usual with Lyn pipping Di to first prize with both finishing on -6.

Thank you to those who turned out at Mullion and managed a draw in spite of the weather. Hopefully the fish and chips made the journey worthwhile!

Polglase 1 Medal and Millennium Trophy

Polglase 1

Overcast skies and gusts of 40 mph greeted us at Cape today along with, (and to our complete surprise), a host of runners who were using Cape as their registration point for a run to St Ives!  Milling around in the car park and changing rooms were the runners... along with our fifteen ladies who came to compete in the medal. 

The golf today was a real challenge - well done to all those who took part!

Well done to our winner Claire who came in with a Nett 77 - (there were never going to be low scores today).

In second place was Sue D with nett 78 and the rest of us followed some way behind... in fact we seemed to have been playing a different course!

Third was myself with a nett 85 followed by Sarah - who just pipped Hilary to fourth place on countback with nett 86.

We certainly knew we'd played today - we were exhausted (and hungry)!

It was great to have Fran play her first 18 holes for some time and it was good to see Jayne who popped in to say hello.